Reading Time: 2 minutesRalph and Mark are two struggling artists in modern-day London. They complain about Suella Braverman, the freezing temperatures due to their broken boiler (which the landlord will only fix once they have paid their rent), and faulty Amazon purchases. Ralph writes plays, Mark designs them
Reading Time: 2 minutesFloat is a new production by Northern Irish writers Kirby Thompson and Orla Graham, co-directed by Thompson and Caoimhe McGee.
Reading Time: 3 minutesAfter starting out at the Bush Theatre earlier this year with great success and fantastic reviews, Shifters has now opened for a run at The Duke of York’s Theatre.
Reading Time: 2 minutesScottish Opera’s Oedipus Rex is an adaptation of Sophocles’ ancient Greek tragedy, based on Igor Stravinsky’s opera, is staged in the National Museum of Scotland. Conducted by Stuart Stratford and directed by Roxana Haines, the production features a mix of professional and community chorus members.
Reading Time: 2 minutesSuitcase Show is an eclectic boxset of short stories. Dark, spiky, and comic, each one is told out of a suitcase.
Reading Time: 3 minutesAt the Hen & Chickens Theatre last night, Celeste Cahn gave what was nothing more than a stunning performance. In this whirlwind one-woman show, Cahn takes the audience through the vagaries of growing up as a girl in a world full of patriarchal expectations. With quick wit and a shower of impressive dialects, she brought forth a myriad of characters, all while wearing the same costume. The result was a 55-minute single-act master class on how to construct a comedic tale with a biting social commentary.
Reading Time: 2 minutesRachel Fairburn has two shows at this year’s Fringe. Her first, Showgirl, is her stand-up show, but with her other show, Side Eye, she’s bringing her character comedy to the Fringe for the first time.
Reading Time: 2 minutesMirren Wilson’s PALS (or Perfectly Average Lassies) is a play about 4 friends, embarking on an adventure to climb Ben Lomand as a way to feel better about themselves as their friends are seemingly conquering the world. Sadie (Millie Rodger) is our narrator and guide for the weekend - a keen hillwalker who’s ailing mum is having more of a toll on her than her friends know. Her childhood friends, the overly prepared Claire (a fantastically slapstick physical comedy performance from Briony Martha), the chatty Flo (Shelley Middler) and the Insta-obsessed Taylor (Amy Glass).
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe ‘it’ in When It Happens to You refers to a phone-call from your daughter telling you she’s just been raped. The ‘when’ is right at the start of this searing theatrical memoir. Writer Tawni O’Dell recounts her own experience receiving “the second worst” phone call you can ever receive, and the subsequent devastation it wrought on her family. The result is an intimate, gripping, and insightful portrait of the horrors of sexual assault for both its victims and those who love them.
Reading Time: 2 minutesDNA Studio’s RTFM is a play about conflict, fear, chaos and grief. Performed by Helena Harrison and Philip Honeywell in an intimate studio space, this mixed media, physical theatre piece hit every emotion in the playbook.